1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If you haven't already, and you need to 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: make sure that you have smashed the follow button and 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: left your five star rating or review on either Spotify 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: or Apple Podcasts. That helps spread these stories out for 6 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: the whole world to hear. And today's story comes to 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: us from Luca. Hey, Luca, your story is about to 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: head out across the entire world. Are you ready for 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. Today was supposed to 10 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: be a very normal day as Luca was getting home 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: from school. He was supposed to have a very normal 12 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: day with friends playing soccer in the field nearby and 13 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: laughing and making some really fun memory. That was all 14 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: supposed to happen today, But something very unusual happened that 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: changed everybody's plans forever. But before we get to the 16 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: part where Luca enters the story, we must go back 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: to this morning. Earlier, this morning, far far away, lived 18 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: a ginormous creature. We would call him Bigfoot, but he 19 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: just likes to be called Biggie. Is just call me Biggie. 20 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: And Biggie lives in the middle of a forest, far 21 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,199 Speaker 1: away from people, He does not like to be seen 22 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: or heard or even known about his whole life. He 23 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: just wants to live in secret. Every morning, he would 24 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: cook up a delicious breakfast and then go up on 25 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: a high up a mountain to his favorite place to 26 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: look out over the hills, right next to a beautiful, 27 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: crystal clear river where he could drink his morning tea. Yes, 28 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: Biggie loved to drink a pine needle tea. He would 29 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: gather a whole bunch of pine needles, and somehow he 30 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: had a cup that he had made from a branch, 31 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: And so Biggie would make that delicious cup of tea 32 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: and dangle his feet off the edge of another branch, 33 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: a branch that was big enough for him to sit on. 34 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: He had tested many branches before and came crashing down 35 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: many times before because Biggie is very hairy. Yes he 36 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: is big, but he's also very hairy, and all that 37 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: hair makes him very heavy. But this morning his plans 38 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: got all messed up. You see, he loved to do 39 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: the same routine over and over. It's something that made him, 40 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: I think, feel safe and feel good. Do you like 41 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: to do the same thing over and over like a routine? 42 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: Like maybe when you wake up, you walk over to 43 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: the bathroom, brush your teeth, you come downstairs and eat breakfast, 44 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: get ready for school, and then you go to school. 45 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: Like having a routine is pretty nice because you know 46 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 1: exactly what needs to do when it needs to be done. 47 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: But unfortunately for Biggie, something happened last night. It messed 48 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: up his entire day. Where did my tree go? Somebody 49 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: ate my sitting tree with my sitting branch? Who did it? 50 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: As Biggie, you looked around back and forth, there was 51 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: nobody there, but the evidence around made it pretty clear 52 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: who was responsible for this. I think it was a 53 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: beaver that ate his tree. But Biggie did not like change. 54 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: He did not know what to do, and so he 55 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: needed to find a new place to sit and drink 56 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: his pine needle tea as fast as possible. Okay, looks 57 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: like I'm hitting up a new mountain. We gotta find 58 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: the perfect branch on the perfect tree so I can 59 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: drink my morning tea. Biggie started hiking up this new place, 60 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: somewhere he had never been before. Squish, squash, squish, squash. 61 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: Biggie's ginormous feet squashed through the mud and all of 62 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: a sudden, he slid down the side of a hill. Wooh. 63 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: His giant feet had accidentally stepped into some very slippery mud, 64 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: which led him sliding all the way down the side 65 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: of a mountain into a valley below. This valley was 66 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: completely surrounded by very steep hills, almost like cliffs, so 67 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: it was going to be very hard, maybe impossible for 68 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: Biggie to get out. Oh what in the darnation where 69 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: where am i? As Biggie looked around, he was a 70 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: little scared. Even though he was very big, new places 71 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: did not make him feel safe. But off in the 72 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: distance he saw a cave, a cave with a bright 73 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: light on the other side, which meant it looks like 74 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: that cave is the only way in or out of 75 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: this valley, and if Biggie wants to get back to 76 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: his home, he's gonna need to go through that cave. Squish, squash, 77 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: squish squash. As he huffed and puffed his way to 78 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: the cave, his footprints left a muddy trail behind. As 79 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: he approached the cave, he was met with a ginormous roar. 80 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: What do you think doing coming into my cave? Said 81 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: the big, big voice from in the cave. Biggie did 82 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: not know what to do, and so the only thing 83 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: he thought of what to do was he ran away 84 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 1: as fast as he could. Squish, squash, squish, squash his 85 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: feet squashed his way through the mud, and he finally 86 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: jumped behind a pile of rocks. He would be safe here. 87 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: He reached inside his pocket and called for help to HQ. 88 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: Wait a second, what he didn't he knows HQ. Yes. 89 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: In fact, Biggie used to be on the spy team 90 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: a long, long time ago and still has a spy beeper. 91 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: He was on the spy team a long time ago 92 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: and now he's retired, so that's why he just lives 93 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: out in the mountains. But in case of an emergency, 94 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: HQ will be there to help. Meanwhile, back on Luca's 95 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: side of the world, he was playing soccer with his friends. 96 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: I'm open, I'm open. Passed here, shouted Luca. Oh wait, 97 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: I'm not open. Hold on you guys, keep playing. I'll 98 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: be right back. He had gotten the alert from HQ, 99 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: and so he ran off to the side to listen 100 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: to this message, and it said, Luca, we need your help. 101 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: One of our spies has fallen into a place where 102 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: he needs help. There seems to be a dinosaur stopping 103 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: him from escaping, and we'll send you the coordinates to 104 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: go help him. Over and now, shh, a dinosaur, Lucas shouted. 105 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: He did not understand what in the world could be 106 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: going on. HQ. Hold on a second, did you say 107 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: a dinosaur? Sh Yes, Luca, a dinosaur has trapped one 108 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: of our old bigfoot spies inside of a valley surrounded 109 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: by mountains. He's unable to get out, and our bigfoot, 110 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: who goes by the name Biggie, he has requested backup 111 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: and so we need you to go rescue him. Over 112 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: and out sh as. Lucas stood there on the soccer field. 113 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: His eyes were very large and his mouth was hanging opened. 114 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: Somehow he had just slipped into a mission to save 115 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: a bigfoot from a dinosaur. He didn't even know those 116 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: things were still around. And oh dear, this is gonna 117 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: be quite the adventure for Luca, and it's only just begun. 118 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: He has no idea what is in store for him, 119 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 1: and waiting on that mysterious forest, We'll have to wait 120 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: and see what happens. On the next episode of Kids' 121 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: Short Stories, Hey. 122 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 2: Friends, I need your help celebrating a birthday. Drum roll, please, 123 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: Happy birthday. Read on who's turning six years old? Read 124 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 2: on loves listening to mister Jim stories every night on 125 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 2: road trips, loves building legos, and he wants to be 126 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 2: a doctor when he grows up. For humans and animals both. 127 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 2: You know, some days he wants to treat humans and 128 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 2: the other day's animals. 129 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: I love it. Read on I'm so glad we got 130 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: to celebrate you and your big day on the show. 131 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: Happy sixth birthday. Well friends, if you want to celebrate 132 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: your big day on the show half your parents, check 133 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: down in the show notes below for instructions on how 134 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: to get on our birthday schedule. We're scheduling May and 135 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: June birthdays right now. Well, friends, I hope you all 136 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: have a super duper day and I'll see you on 137 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: our next adventure. Bye.